The Irony

Technology is our modern excuse for not thinking.

The age of reason an important book on how enlightenment slowly started turning into human capacity to progress. Further away from the void we had been having for so long. But it wasn’t really empty but there was a need to create roads, to create streams of bridges and highways for faster vehicles for better trading, and to improve living for a society that would change fast. Enlightenment comes with realizing there is something missing to the atmosphere it is a call to the mind, to people to come together and create and pro-create on ideas. How far that would take everything nobody knew, and still no one does.

This morning I was watching some trailers of the upcoming year, and I noticed we need to talk about AI. More interesting David Cameron made a documentary asking this question to himself and others. As if the public is not realizing it is already here. Our progress in making robots talk and chemistry change color is not something unnoticed to our naked eyes. Instead, we have the most modified machine in our hands daily that gives us updates, notifications and more. But one thing it does not do give a horizon.

Our technology has surpassed a certain threshold in which we do not know if we have a handle on it, and when this grip will go away. We are replacing doorbells with Rings. Our fridges are starting to look like a tv where you can see your daily calendar, news and people that are online and or live. Everything is becoming smarter, but what is happening to us.

The last time I heard anything good about schools for children, was when I went to school as a young one myself. The growing concern about education and if teachers are fit to educate is an ever-growing concern. More because we have solely one question. Are they preparing the kids for tomorrow? The answer could be easy, but I think we both no. That the education system has been failing since we decided to put smartboards in classrooms and make sure the students at least attend 30% of the class.

The time has come where our children learn something that we’ve never had so extensively apps and droids. Our children are being raised on the idea that in our homes all the fun stuff is electronic. All the things to pass time are watchable. Everything is there to entertain you, even if you do not need to be entertained. Boredom, starring at the sky having fun outside. Now kids are shooting and shouting at their screens, while the grandparents look up and ask. Don’t they have a book to read, and they do but not interesting enough to create the dopamine that games and video are producing.

We are replacing our morality towards entertainment and learning. From discipline to an acronym.

There is something to be said about knowing what is the right time, and what is learning time. In schools I can imagine, they raise the question often. Why are the kids so hyped? Why do they stay so active? It’s because the kids are doing nothing less than constant entertainment. They are constantly in bandwidth to do everything at the same time faster then we can. What is not seen by the adults is that we are destroying there intellect. Children are supposed to wonder, to walk and fool around. To ask dumb questions, instead, now they have devices all over telling them exactly what they need to know about whatever.

So in the homeschooling dilemma, we get to see how our kids are doing, and I do not know this. We do not have kids, but I can imagine it’s a revelation to see that the kids are doing a good job. Considering that we have only had phones for 20 years. Yes, I mean the smartphone. Even the flip phone.

All these gadgets as they were called, they create an atmosphere of constant engagement. An engagement we don’t need. But it is built for us, in our image by us. The irony we are building an extended world, of which we never ask. What will the effect be on us?